Hand-stamp.



No. 694,3I8.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFCE.

A. LEIVIS EDGARTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAN D-STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,318, dated February 25, 1902. Application filed November 23, 1900. Serial No. 37,441. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, A. LEwIs EDGARTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illi nois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamps, of which the following is a specification. y

My invention relates to hand-stamps wherein the handle is attached to the type-block by means of a flexible connection, whereby vibratory or indirect pressure brought by the handle upon the surface of the type do not produce a blurred or uneven impression.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, secure, and inexpensive mode of flexibly connecting a handle with a type-block, as will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional elevation of the hand-stamp, showing the various parts. Fig. 2 is a modification thereof, also showing by dotted lines the position of the handle and type-block when an indirect pressure is brought upon the surface of the paper. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the flexible connection for the han-y dle and type-block.

As shown in said drawings, a type-block A is provided with a central vertical screw-hole a in the top thereof, and a handle B is provided with a cylindrical aperture or socket b in the lower end thereof, which may preferably be enlarged at the upper end to receive one end of an axially-apertured cylinder or prism C, of rubber or other resilient material, which normally ts closely in said socket in the end of said handle and is adapted to be slightly compressed therein. The aperture in said flexible connection, as shown, is very small, and a ball or other solid E, having a diameter greater than the aperture, being forced in the end thereof and the end forced into the socket in the handle either with or without cement,'expands within the socket b of the handle and resists withdrawal, and also, if glue or cement be used, prevents the glue or cement from running down the sides or down Ithe aperture in the flexible connection.

The lower end of the flexible connection C is secured to the top of the type-block A as follows: A screw D extends upwardly through the aperture in the type-block and through the head Aof an inverted ferrule d into the lower end of the aperture in the flexible connection C. Said lower end of said flexible connection fits very closely into the ferrule d, and said screw D acts to expand the end thereof when screwed therein, thereby firmly wedging the same into the ferrule.

The handle B has a portion at b cut away at au angle around the bottom thereof, which Will more effectually allow the handle to take the position shown in Fig. 2, and also does away with the sharp edge, which otherwise would bind the flexible connection. The length of said flexible connection is such as to prevent contact of the handle within the ferrule. A strong connection is thus made in asimple and inexpensive manner. As a further improvement the ferrule, as shown in Fig. 2, may be corrugated or provided with internal screws-threads in the flange thereof to receive the threads of the screw D, the ferrule thus also acting as a lock-nut.

I claim as my inventionl. In a hand-stamp, the combination with a socketed handle, of a flexible, axially-ap Vertured part extending at one end into the socket, lneans for expanding said end there in, a socketed type-block into the socket of which the other end of said flexible part extends and a screw passing through said typeblock and socket thereof into the said flexible part and jamming the same into the socket.

2. In a hand-stamp, the combination with a handle having a socket therein larger at its inner end of a flexible axially-apertured part, one end of which extends into and fits closely in said socket, a socketed type-blockinto the socket of which the lower end of said flexible part fits and a screw passing through said type-block and axially through the socket thereof into the aperture of the flexible part and acting to dilate and Wedge the same into engagement with the walls thereof.

3. In a hand-stamp, the combination with a handle having a central inwardly-flaring socket, of a flexible axially-apertured part extending within said socket, a ball within said aperture acting to dilate the end of said flexible part into binding engagement in said socket, a type-block, an inverted ferrule centrally secured thereon and into which the other end of the flexible part closely fits and a screw extending upwardly through said other end'of the flexible part closely ts and a type-block and ferrule and into the lower end screw extending upwardly through said typeof the flexible part and acting to Wed ge the block and ferrule and into the lower end of the I 5 same in the ferrule. flexible part and acting to Wedge the same in 5 4. In a hand-stamp, the combination with the ferrule, the lower end of the handle being a handle having a central inwardly-:daring cut away around said exible part to afford socket, of a flexible axially-apertured part ygreater freedom of movement. extending within said socket, a ball Within said aperture acting to dilate the end of said A' LEWIS EDGARTON rc flexible part into binding engagement in said Witnesses:

socket, a type-block, an inverted ferrule cen- CARLE H. SCHAFER, trally secured thereon and into which the g ARTHUR OBRIEN. 

